North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical MyDoom statistics (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack)
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Are there any reliable estimates as to the amount of infected hosts out > there? Looking at my stats for email sent this week, I am seeing a 70:1 > ratio for mydoom.a as compared to Swen.a (the next most prevalent virus). > Perhaps if we had some rough #s to work with we could start to approximate > the range of traffic volumes we might see. Reliable? Not really. McAfee's global virus statistics say 17% of all scanned computers were infected by W32/Mydoom.a. But I don't believe that number, because it is wildly different than other metrics. A lot of users have experienced the MyDoom file being on their computer (e.g. through a mail message). But I don't think that represents the number of people which clicked and executed the file, infecting their computer.
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